Scott W. Baker: Chaos out of Chaos

What Am I Thinking?!?

Demands of the world have been making it hard for me to write of late. I think I’ve mentioned that here. I have decided to fight back. How? I’m doing NaNoWriMo. (You fool!) I need to get butt in chair, fingers on keyboard, words on screen. I’m hoping a month of hammering at a novel project will get my habits back where they belong. 50,000 words in a month. I can do this.

I found an abandoned story outline that has a lot of potential. I think I’m going to develop it. It’s a commercially viable idea and I’m hoping to stretch that into a “high concept” idea. You know, that “Citizen Kane meets Harry Potter” idea or “Die Hard meets The Hangover”. We’ll see. Either way, I think it will be marketable if I can get it done. We’re talking 80,000+ words done, not just 50,000, but you have to start somewhere.

Why this November for NaNo? Several reasons.

I need to restructure my writing schedule

I have no major projects in the works (just that fairy tale rewrite…but that can wait till December)

I stumbled upon an old idea that I’m comfortable using

If not this year, when?

So I’ll give it a shot. If I don’t finish, I don’t finish. But I intend to give it the old college try. If you’re NaNo-ing with me, good luck.